A resident of Gaza makes an appeal for people throughout the world to absorb the meaning of Israel’s 2009 onslaught.

Gaza has returned to its pre-massacre state of siege, confronted with the usual, conspiratorial, “international” indifference after 22 long days and dark nights, during which its brave people were left alone to face one of the strongest armies in the world–an army that has hundreds of nuclear warheads, and thousands of trigger-happy soldiers, armed with Merkava tanks, F-16s, Apache helicopters, naval gunships and phosphorous bombs.